The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow re-arrested the general director of the Lavochkin NGO Sergei Lemeshevsky, accused of fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code), reports . Interfax On August 7, the Moscow City Court overturned the decision to arrest Lemeshevsky and sent it for review. As Interfax notes, upon re-examination the court did not find any grounds for choosing a more lenient preventive measure for Lemeshevsky.

Kursk resident Dmitry Meshcheryakov was sentenced to three and a half years in a general regime colony under articles on public calls for terrorism (parts 1 and 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) for publishing audio recordings on VKontakte. This is stated in a message from the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The department did not specify when and by what court the verdict was passed.

Russian rapper Oksimiron (Miron Fedorov) called on the residents of Barnaul to come out on August 14 to the picket “For a Free Internet”, organized in support of those accused in the cases of VKontakte pictures. about this Oksimiron wrote on Twitter.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has proposed a new procedure for granting citizenship to foreigners who possess specialties that are in demand in Russia. They want to significantly simplify the scheme, since during the four years of the rule for qualified specialists, only 12 foreigners were able to use it.

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court fined the human rights organization “Man and the Law” 300 thousand rubles for not labeling “foreign agent” on the organization’s Facebook page, reports the Public Verdict Foundation. Judge Lyudmila Ivanova satisfied the demands of Roskomnadzor and found the organization guilty under Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code. Human rights activists write that this is the first case in which a court has fined people for lack of labeling on Facebook.

The Naberezhnye Chelny city court sentenced a local resident who hit a police officer to six months of probation for refusing to give him a service weapon for [Roskomnadzor], according to the website of the Tatarstan prosecutor's office. The defendant was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a representative of the authorities). The man admitted guilt.

The Moscow City Hall warned of responsibility for the organizers of the “March of Mothers”, which they plan to hold in the city center in support of those accused in the “New Greatness” case. Interfax about this . told The head of the regional security department, Vladimir Chernikov, “We ask citizens to refrain from the unauthorized event and not to encourage others to participate in it,” the agency quotes him as saying. He recalled that mass actions must be coordinated with city authorities.

In the Kurgan region, the Investigative Committee began an investigation after publications that a police officer, during his arrest, kicked a 17-year-old teenager in the head who was driving a car without a license, according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Moscow District Military Court sentenced a resident of Orel to five years in a general regime colony for comments on VKontakte, according to the website of the Oryol region prosecutor's office. The defendant was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public justification of terrorism committed using the Internet). The court also banned him from administering the sites for three years.

In the Samara region, a local resident became a suspect in the illegal imprisonment of two men for six years, TASS reports citing the press service of the FSB department. According to the special service, in July it received information that a resident of the Kinelsky district was holding two Russian citizens in slavery.

The social network VKontakte is going to change its privacy settings to allow users to make accounts non-public. As the managing director of the company, Andrei Rogozov, said , this is being done because the company is “against unjustified persecution for publications on the Internet.” The first change will be to disable the list of those who reposted a post (only the author of the post will see it).

In Mordovian colony No. 17, anarchist Ilya Romanov, convicted of attempting a terrorist attack in Nizhny Novgorod, was placed in a punishment cell. As activist Mikhail Pulin told OVD-Info, Romanov was sent to a punishment cell immediately after being delivered to the colony from Saransk pre-trial detention center No. 1. On what basis Romanov was placed in a punishment cell is not specified.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk refused to allow Artem Veselov, a graduate of gymnasium No. 4, to review his Unified State Examination results in social studies, which were lowered due to a reference to an unofficial textbook, Novaya Gazeta writes , citing lawyer Irina Grebneva. The lawsuit was filed by the Ministry of Education of the Novosibirsk Region and the State Examination Commission of the Novosibirsk Region.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Photo: Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev is judged for the initiation of hatred of the authorities of the republic and the insult to her head Yunus-Bek Evkurov. Evkurov himself was recognized as victims in the case, but in six meetings he never once appeared in court.

In the arson of the wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kondopog, they suspect a fifteen -year -old schoolboy, TASS reports with reference to a source in the regional law enforcement agencies. “A 15-year-old schoolboy is suspected of arson. He has mental abnormalities. He [explained] his actions so that he wants to become famous throughout the world, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.